When we talk about something that all human beings have had in common at some point of their lives would be stress. Stress can be defined physical response and adaptation by our bodies to the real or perceived changes and challenges in our lives. At some point of our lives, we have all suffered from stress for different reasons like jobs, relationships, diseases and others. Right now, I have been going through some personal challenges and difficulties in life that has impacted my every day routine like working out or eating healthy. I have not being able to work out five days this week, I have barely been eating and I have been lacking off in school drastically to the point that getting an A in any of my classes right now would probably be impossible. This is why for this chapter one of the things that interested me the most was the stress that relationships can cause in your life. You would never imagine how much lack of focus and sleep you could lose because of a relationship. I think it is really interesting how relationships could be eustress as well as distress. It could be an exciting stress and something that pushes you and makes you try harder as well as someone that you can lean on and help for comfort but it can also get you out of track. This is why 44% of our stress is relationships.
Another interesting fact of this chapter was sleep. When we are stress we tend to not be able to sleep because our mind is so busy thinking and stressing out about our challenges that it is hard for our mind to focus on calming down and sleeping. I think the importance of sleep was an really interesting topic because I think sometimes we do not realize the importance and also the impact of sleep and how it affects us in the short run as well as the long run. Some of the interesting benefits of sleep are stress management and mental health, motor tasks, and contributes to mental function. However, when we do not get good sleep it can affects our attitudes, behaviors, as well as our energy to perform tasks.
The last interesting topic that has definitely impacted me this week is time and financial management. I thought that maybe it was a coincidence of how my time as well financial stability this week has been drastically poor compared to my previous month. This week I have bee constantly buying unhealthy food and not making time for any of my responsibilities. However, I am hoping that by the end of this week, I actually commit to school and make up all my slack. My example of unhealthy eating is definitely because of self-esteem and interest of anything right now.
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